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"William M. Klimon" wrote in message news:8krEc.3306$fd3.2857@lakeread04
The finest private press book in my collection is a copy of Sassoon's *The Path to Peace* (Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1960), # 83/500, described as part of the "wonderous flowering from the Stanbrook Abbey Press: in a few years from 1956 the Benedictine sisters in their print-shop, armed with elegant, newly acquired types by the eminent Dutch typographer Jan van Krimpen and with a devoted scriptorium, made several books--among them . . . Siegfried Sassoon's *The Path to Peace* (1960) celebrating his conversion--in which the love of the task well done seems to shine from the page."--John Byrne, "Private Press Books," in *Antiquarian Books: A Companion*, ed. P. Bernard (Philadelphia: U. of Penn. Pr., 1994), p. 338. William M. Klimon http://www.gateofbliss.com Great recommendation. Checked on ABE; three copies available but the cheapest is $475. Art Layton Stamford CT |
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Bruce Bairnsfather's Bullets & Billets or his Fragments From France. They
were very popular at the time. I started looking from them after I read that Gen. Patton referred to Bill Mauldin as "this wars Bairnsfather". "Francis A. Miniter" wrote in message ... Art Layton wrote: If you were collecting books (fiction and non-fiction) about WWI (The Great War), where would you start? These would have to be printed or translated in english. Can you recommend dealers that specialize in WWI books? Art Layton Stamford, CT USA Hi Art, As to titles, I can suggest a few (in addition to the obvious All Quiet on the Western Front): Arnold Zweig, The Case of Sergeant Grishka Arnold Zweig, Education Before Verdun Cpt.Gilbert Nobbs, On the Right of the British Line Bertram Wolfe, Three Who Made a Revolution John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Lenin in Zurich Alexander Solzhenitzyn, August 1914 Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman, The Zimmerman Telegram Cpt. von Rintelen, The Dark Invader Cpt. Donald Macintyre, Jutland Lowell Thomas, Raiders of the Deep Lowell Thomas, Count Luckner: The Sea Devil Lowell Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert Leon Wolff, In Flanders Fields John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace Some of them make good paired reading, such as: Solzhenitsyn, August, 1914 and Tuchman, The Guns of August Tuchman, The Zimmerman Telegram and Rintelen, The Dark Invader Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia and Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert I grant that the three on the start of the Russian Revolution are not strictly on WWI itself, but I consider the former to be inextricably linked to the latter. I would like to say a few words about the Nobbs book, which I picked up at a tag sale two weekends ago and which I quickly read shortly after that. Nobbs wrote a memoir of his brief role in the war. He was transported as a company commander of territorial soldiers (i.e., new volunteers, not regular army) to France, marched straight to the Somme and was given orders to attack a day or so later. The orders were changed at the last hour (literally) and the point of his attack altered to charge the middle of an area defended on three sides. Dutifully, his company of 135 men attacked. Within a short time, he and another man reached within 10 yards of the German line, but with all the rest of the company dead. The other man was sent back to call for reinforcements and killed on the way. Nobbs took a bullet through the left temple and out the right eye. He was captured by the Germans and blinded for life. It is a powerful story. Francis A. Miniter |
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Hi Art,
A postscript - a few more titles that came to mind: Francis Duffy, Father Duffy's Story (don't know how I missed that one the first time) Charles Seymour, The Diplomatic Background of the War 1870-1914 H. G. Wells, Mr. Britling Sees It Through Somerset Maugham, Ashenden, or The British Agent (believed by some to be based on Maugham's own role in WWI) Since poetry was mentioned, Robert Service should not be ignored, especially his book "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man". When you originally acked the question, I pondered how to consider books whose action depends on WWI, but which is independent of it, such as: Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (impotency from a war wound) D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (impotency from a war wound - again) Dorothy Sayer's Lord Peter Whimsey novels (where both Lord Peter and his valet went through the war together with Lord Peter much the worse for the experience) Francis A. Miniter Francis A. Miniter wrote: Art Layton wrote: If you were collecting books (fiction and non-fiction) about WWI (The Great War), where would you start? These would have to be printed or translated in english. Can you recommend dealers that specialize in WWI books? Art Layton Stamford, CT USA Hi Art, As to titles, I can suggest a few (in addition to the obvious All Quiet on the Western Front): Arnold Zweig, The Case of Sergeant Grishka Arnold Zweig, Education Before Verdun Cpt.Gilbert Nobbs, On the Right of the British Line Bertram Wolfe, Three Who Made a Revolution John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Lenin in Zurich Alexander Solzhenitzyn, August 1914 Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August Barbara Tuchman, The Zimmerman Telegram Cpt. von Rintelen, The Dark Invader Cpt. Donald Macintyre, Jutland Lowell Thomas, Raiders of the Deep Lowell Thomas, Count Luckner: The Sea Devil Lowell Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert Leon Wolff, In Flanders Fields John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace Some of them make good paired reading, such as: Solzhenitsyn, August, 1914 and Tuchman, The Guns of August Tuchman, The Zimmerman Telegram and Rintelen, The Dark Invader Thomas, With Lawrence in Arabia and Lawrence, Revolt in the Desert I grant that the three on the start of the Russian Revolution are not strictly on WWI itself, but I consider the former to be inextricably linked to the latter. I would like to say a few words about the Nobbs book, which I picked up at a tag sale two weekends ago and which I quickly read shortly after that. Nobbs wrote a memoir of his brief role in the war. He was transported as a company commander of territorial soldiers (i.e., new volunteers, not regular army) to France, marched straight to the Somme and was given orders to attack a day or so later. The orders were changed at the last hour (literally) and the point of his attack altered to charge the middle of an area defended on three sides. Dutifully, his company of 135 men attacked. Within a short time, he and another man reached within 10 yards of the German line, but with all the rest of the company dead. The other man was sent back to call for reinforcements and killed on the way. Nobbs took a bullet through the left temple and out the right eye. He was captured by the Germans and blinded for life. It is a powerful story. Francis A. Miniter |
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I have not read all of these and cannot even find a decent review for
them all, and none, with the exception of the Eckstein's book, is about the war, per se. They all deal with the effect of the war on artists who expirienced the war, even on a peripheral level. Two deal with the same topic, but use Vietnam as the war. And one, the Cottington, is simply about Cubism pre-war, but has an interesting essay - Picasso's Cubist War. The Sherry book is almost unreadable. #17 has a fabulous essay comparing Heart of Darkness and the film and screenplay for Apocalypse Now. The best, IMO, are the Fussell, the Ecksteins and the Hynes. (After reading the Hynes book I emailed him at Princeton to tell him how much I enjoyed his book and asked him if he knoew of others like it. He replied and invited me to his house. He was a fighter pilot in the Pacific in WWII and writes about the effect of war on art, and gave me four other books. One was the Sherry. Hmmmm?) l Peter Krynicki Plainsboro, New Jersey big snip Thanks, Peter, and everyone else who shared their ideas with me. I also sent an email to John Marrin who specializes in books about WWI. He also provided me with a list. Peter, your suggestions of books about books of WWI prompted me to think about my collection of Vietnam literature. The Great War represented a turning point in western culture. Certainly the number of dead was an important factor. Without that, would students at Oxford and Cambridge in 1936 pledged to never fight for king or country? Would the rule of Tsar Nicholas ended so soon? Vietnam was the first TV war. Every day we could see the fighting. Some of the novels express a revulsion to the violence, I see that in Larry Heinemann's two novels, "Paco's Story" and "Close Quarters" (probably the best novel about vietnam). In Kent Anderson's novels (Sympathy for the Devil and Night Dogs), his characters embrace the violence even as it destroys them. Art Layton Stamford CT |
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